This week’s photo is around a fun fact. If you have ever travelled to Traverse City and ventured passed 3424 Cass Road, you may have wondered what the giant pie tin was for. Well, at one time Traverse City was in the Guinness Book of World’s Records for having baked the largest pie. According to the story, the former Chef Pierre Bakeries, now Sara Lee, got miffed that Charlevoix was claiming to have made the world’s largest cherry pie. So in 1987, the company made the world’s largest cherry pie, weighing in at 28,350 pounds, almost twice the size of Charlevoix’s and Chef Pierre Bakeries had Guinness Book officials certify it as the largest. Once it was announced, you know someone would take that as a challenge and 11 years later, a town in Canada made a cherry pie that was 10,000 pounds heavier than Traverse City’s. The pie tin that once served the Traverse City pie and the Guinness Book of World’s Records still stand at the former Chef Pierre Bakeries plant.
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